Gombrich warburg biography

Austrian-British art historian (1909–2001)

Sir Ernst Hans Josef GombrichOM CBE FBA (; German:[ˈgɔmbʁɪç]; 30 March 1909 – 3 November 2001) was an Austrian-born art historian who, after settling in England in 1936,^[1] became a naturalised British citizen in 1947^[2] and spent most of his working life in the United Kingdom.

Gombrich was the author of many works of cultural history and art history, most notably The Story of Art, a book widely regarded as one of the most accessible introductions to the visual arts,^[3] and Art and Illusion,^[4] a major work in the psychology of perception that influenced thinkers as diverse as Carlo Ginzburg,^[5]Nelson Goodman,^[6]Umberto Eco,^[7] and Thomas Kuhn.^[8]

Biography

The son of Karl Gombrich and Leonie Hock, Gombrich was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, into an assimilated upper middle class family of Jewish origin who Gombrich warburg biography death.